In last Sunday’s front-page article about Lancaster County’s inexplicable drop off in property tax collections, council member Billy Mosteller says: “We aren’t talking $10,000. We are talking millions.”
I hope all of you who voted “no” on Indian Land becoming a town are satisfied with the current situation.

The Rock Hill All Star Band played a song last Friday during a performance at Lancaster’s Moose Lodge to honor the late Mayor John Howard.
“I Won’t Back Down” is a classic rock song written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in 1989. It was first performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. After the 9/11 attack, it gained a lot of additional airplay and came to be the song that spoke to the “spirit resolve” of the U.S. military.

When I’m wrong, I admit it.
Solicitor Randy Newman, I should have realized you would be the best man for the job. You had the best sixth-circuit solicitor, Doug Barfield, showing you the ropes before you ran.
You have done everything you said you would do, plus more. I think we all in Lancaster should be proud of you.
I voted for William Frick, but I’m now glad you won. Being older does not necessarily mean you’re the best.
You’re young and have great ideas for helping our town and the court system. And you’re doing it.

As a Lancaster Promise Neighborhood supporter, I want to make sure you know that Give Local Lancaster is next Tuesday!
Please help support our efforts to empower, strengthen, engage and educate families within the Clinton Elementary attendance zone, with the goal of restoring community pride and ensuring educational success for every child from birth to college. Specifically, funds raised during Give Local Lancaster are designated for the community workdays.
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Lancaster should be proud of American Legion Post 31 and for all the patriots in your community who support their veterans.
On April 21, 90-plus motorcycles and over 130 veterans and family members stopped at Post 31 for lunch. Post 31 had rolled out the red carpet and had worked with local restaurants that donated food to feed our group – the American Legion Riders of South Carolina.

Many of you have been generous in the past in supporting the work of the Lancaster County Society for Historical Preservation.
Your donations – and your attendance and sponsorship of events – are financing restoration and improvements at the Lancaster Cultural Arts Center (formerly the Olde Presbyterian Church) and security improvements at the adjacent cemetery, which has been vandalized twice in the past 20 months.

The column about newsprint tariffs by Susan Rowell, publisher of The Lancaster News, shows that the writer has a short memory.
Not that long ago, most newsprint paper was made in the United States.
I can remember when a lot of old newsprint was recycled. The Boy Scouts and other organizations would go around and collect the old paper and sell it to the paper mills.
That all ended when NAFTA came along, and the U.S. mills could not compete with the lower-cost paper coming from Canada. The American mills closed down and put thousands of people out of work.